Irreverend

I am more comfortable being called George, the Irreverend.

David is of course not the first member of the House of Bishops to do the Sleep-Out and certain irreverend parties are now bragging that they have slept with two bishops!

It is an expression solely of the rising furious indignation of this one sole cat--me--the Irreverend Robert Gardner." (54)

Edgar criticizes his nineteenth-century ancestors on the grounds that "You were an irreverend, exacting race in your day; you expected more from the preacher than from any other person to whom they gave salaries--they were screwed down to the last thread of the screw; people would have their pennyworth out of them" (95).